Replication of �Malapportionment and Income Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis� (Yusaku Horiuchi), British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, Part 1, pp. 179-183, January 2004.

* Description: Samuels and Snyder (2001) recently presented the index of malapportionment (i.e., the discrepancy between seat shares and population shares by electoral districts) in national legislatures for 78 countries. This paper uses their index and the Gini index, a commonly used measure of income inequality, and shows that democracies with a high level of economic inequality tend to have a high level of political inequality.

* Files included in this package

- ReadMe.txt (this file)
- bjps2004.do (Stata do file)
- bjps2004.dta (Stata data file)
- bjps2004.csv (CSV file)

* Program: Stata version 13.1

* Additional programs required: none

* Process of Replication: 
	(1) Place bjps2004.do and bjps2004 in the same folder. 
	(2) Run bjps2004.do.

* Most Recent Date of Successful Replication: January 17, 2015

* Data Description (See the paper for details)

Contains data from bjps2004.dta
  obs:            78                          
 vars:             9                          17 Jan 2015 11:39
 size:         2,730                          


              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label

cname           str19   %19s                  Country Name
ccode           str3    %9s                   Country Code
malapp          float   %8.0g                 Malapportionment Index
gini            float   %8.0g                 Gini Index (WIID)
gini_urban      byte    %8.0g                 =1 if Gini Index is based on urban population only, =0 otherwise
urb1980         byte    %8.0g                 Urban Population Ration in 1980
urb1988         byte    %8.0g                 Urban Population Ration in 1988
smd             byte    %8.0g                 =1 if SMD, =0 otherwise
lamerica        byte    %8.0g                 =1 if Latin American or Caribbean Country, =0 otherwise

Sorted by:  cname

